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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Dick Cheney's Memory Gap
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- The Defense Secretary appears to have a double standard when
- it comes to Pentagon policy on military families. Dick Cheney
- opposes a proposed law that would excuse one parent from the
- front lines in the event married soldiers with children are
- both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor
- of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his
- own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara
- Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the
- Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You
- . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child needed you,"
- Boxer wrote Cheney last week. "Our bill . . . is not even that
- generous."
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